Africa News - Water Rights

January 31, 2016 Africa called to implement climate change agreement“Even though we contribute the least to global emissions and are most affected, we are leapfrogging to promote climate smart agriculture, renewable energy, to save our lakes, forests, oceans and rivers, and to insure against natural and other disasters through the African Risk Capacity Agency.

January 6, 2016 Why sanitary facilities must cater for allShe said sanitation is a means of promoting health through prevention of human contact with the hazards of wastes as well as treatment and proper disposal of sewage or wastewater, “but on streets, and in schools, it is easy for the blind, the cripple and amputees to get into contact with wastes or dirty floor.”

November 10, 2015 Joint NGO Statement of Support on the Human Rights to Water and SanitationThey “entitle everyone, without discrimination, to have access to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic use and to have physical and affordable access to sanitation, in all spheres of life, that is safe, hygienic, secure, and socially and culturally acceptable and that provides privacy and ensures dignity.”